502 Upon the Cultivation of the Bouvardia triphylla. 



mats at night ; I keep the lights close during the night, and 

 even in the day unless the sun is very strong upon them, till 

 they begin to grow, when I give them portions of air, ac- 

 cording to the day, and their advance in growth. Subse- 

 quently I leave the lights off through the day, and lastly do 

 not put them on at night. In about a week after they have 

 been thus exposed, I plant them finally out for the season, 

 either in clumps by themselves, or distributed among other 

 plants, when they are soon in fine bloom, and continue to 

 flower till Christmas. By the autumn some of the year's 

 shoots will have attained nearly a yard in length, and will 

 be crowned with fine luxuriant clusters of their splendid 

 trumpet-like flowers. 



The beauty of the plants thus treated, has been the admi- 

 ration of those who have long known the plant, but have only 

 seen it managed in the usual way ; under which one or two of 

 them are kept stinted in pots, in which its flowering season 

 soon terminates, and its blossoms are not so attractive as 

 those of the Scarlet Trumpet Honeysuckle. 



As soon as I apprehend frost, I take up the plants with 

 balls of earth attached to the roots, disturbing the young 

 growing fibres as little as I can help, and place them care- 

 fully in pots that will admit of a little good mellow soil under 

 the ball and around it. When they are thus replaced in pots 

 and watered, so as to settle the mould, those which are in 

 luxuriant blossom I mix among my Green-house Plants, 

 where they make a splendid appearance till January. When 

 the plants begin to shed their leaves, and the flowers are 

 nearly gone, I then put them out of sight, as mentioned 

 above, until April. 



